B R I E FS
Toddy, Wine
Shops To Remain
Closed Today
HYDERABAD:
Enforcing his powers
under Section 2 of the
A.P. Excise Act (Act
No. 6 of 1974), C.V.
Anand, Commissioner of
Police, Cyberabad cumAddl. District Magistrate
(Executive) on Thursday
ordered that all toddy and
wine shops, including
Bars and Restaurants
(excluding Bars in starred
hotels) under Cyberabad
Police Commissionerate
to remain closed from 6
am on June 14 to 6 am
on June 15 in view of
‘Chalo Assembly’ call
given by the Telangana
Political Joint Action
Committee.
(NSS)

Novel Protest: Tdp
Legislators Cook
Food At Gun Park
HYDERABAD:
To
register
its
protest
against the skyrocketing
prices
of
essential
commodities in the State,
the main Opposition
Telugu Desam Party
on Thursday organised
“Vanta-Varpu” (cooking
food) program at the
Gun Park opposite State
Legislative
Assembly.
The TDP leaders told
mediapersons that they
were
constrained
to
organise the “VantaVarpu” program at the
Gun Park as there was no
chance raising burning
problems of the common
man in the Assembly.
All the legislators of
the main Opposition
party joined the protest
along
with
party
supremo N. Chandrababu
Naidu.
(NSS)

Mayor inspect 400 yr old historic shrine at
Moulali

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Chalo Assembly Tension With Police intensify security
around Assembly building
Arrests And Bind-Overs
HYDERABAD: Tension is mounting due to
the ‘Chalo Assembly’
protest march planned
by the Telangana Political JAC on Friday.
While the police rejected
permission, JAC leaders declared that they
would go ahead with
the protest, come what
may. Police imposed
restrictions not only in
Hyderabad, but also in
the districts. Checkposts
were set at district borders, up to prevent Telangana activists from
reaching
Hyderabad
from districts. JAC leaders are being arrested on
a large scale apart from
booking bind-over cases.
In Hyderabad traffic restrictions were imposed
with effect from 11 pm
on Thursday. All the

roads leading to the Assembly are being closed.
Five flyovers near the
Telugu Thalli statue
opposite the Sewcretariat, at Narayanaguda,
Bashirbagh, Masab Tank
and Khairatabad were
closed. Traffic is being
diverted through other
routes. 17 checkposts
were set up in Hyderabad while 58 were set
up in Cyberabad. Police
also took up a drill in
Karimnagar and other
districts. Police are making Hyderabad air tight.
Meanwhile, JAC Chairman Prof. Kodandaram
made it clear that nothing could stop them from
taking up Chalo Assembly. He called upon the
people and parties supporting the programme
to Assembly at the In-

dira Park in Hyderabad.
If police stop and arrest,
‘T’ activists should protest there itself. He also
called upon the protestors
to ensure that it would be
peaceful and no untoward incidents take place.
Kodandaram
threatened that people would
prevent all those who
visit Telangana for votes
in the ensuing Village
Panchayat elections. He
charged the government
of going against the aspirations of the people.
He made it clear that
if any untoward incidents occur, the Chief
Minister Kiran Kumar
Reddy should himself
take the responsibility.
Meanwhile, leaders of
CPI, TRS and BJP met
the Governor Narasimhan and urged him to use

his good offices to get
permission for the ‘Chalo
Assembly’ programme.
They also asked him to
see that bind-over cases
and arrests were stopped.
TRS leader and former
MP K Kesava Rao said
they also asked that the
arrested leaders should
be immediately released.
Stating that the government was deliberately denying permission, he said
the government would
itself be responsible for
all the consequences.
Some private organizations have also decided
to close down the establishments on Friday,
because of the stir. The
education
department
has taken a decision to
close all the educational
institutions in Hyderabad
and RR districts. (NSS)

Passengers of Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express which was attacked by suspected
Maoists near Kundhar halt in Jamui district of Bihar. (PTI)
Over 150 armed Mao- fleeing with weapons. bad-Patna
Inter-City
ists today carried out a
Police and railway of- Express reached Keul at
daring attack on a Pat- ficials said RPF jawan Lakhisarai, ECR Chief
na-bound train, killing Sukhnath D Singh and a Public Relation Officer
three persons, includ- passenger were killed in (CPRO) Amitabh Praing an RPF jawan, and the attack while Kumar bhakar and Lakhisarai
injuring five others in Amit, a Patna-based Bi- DSP Vijay Prasad said.
Bihar’s
Naxal-affect- har police sub-inspector,
Five persons, identied Jamui district before was found dead in an AC fied as K P Singh (train
looting passengers and coach when the Dhan- guard), Manoj Kumar

RPF foil train robbery attempt
Hyderabad: Railway Protection Force
(RPF) personnel foiled
a suspected robbery attempt on a passenger train
today, after firing two
rounds after stones were
pelted on railway staff on
the Adoni-Mantralayam
section of the railway
track, in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.
The incident occurred
in the wee hours today
after the Coimbatore
to LTT Kurla Express
(Train No 11014), was
stopped between Kosigi
and Iranagallu stations
(approximately 80 kms
from Guntakal Junction
on Adoni-Mantralayam

section) due to pulling
of alarm chain in an
air-conditioned coach, a
release from South Central Railway (SCR) said.
RPF personnel who
were on security escort duty in the train,
got down even as the
train’s guard P M Basha alerted passengers
about the presence of
miscreants at the spot.
The RPF team rushed to
handle the situation when
they came under heavy
stone pelting by some
unidentified miscreants
from the nearby bushes.
After this sub-inspector
Shaikh Ibrahim fired two
rounds from his service

pistol in the direction
of the miscreants, who
fled the spot under the
cover of darkness, the
release said, after which
the train left the spot.
A case has been registered by the Government Railway Police
in Adoni in connection
with the incident and
investigations are on.
Minister of State for
Railways Kotla Jaya
Surya Prakash Reddy
complimented the action
taken by the railway staff
to prevent the robbery
attempt and announced
cash awards to the
RPF personnel and the
guard, the release added.

Singh (railway employee
at Jamalpur), Dharmendra Sah (Lakhisarai), P
K Tripathi (Patna) and
Satish Kumar (Muzaffarpur) suffered injuries and
were given treatment at
Keul station, Prabhakar
said adding that Manoj
Kumar Singh’s condition
was stated to be serious.
Around 150 Maoists forcibly stopped
the train near Kunder
Halt between Jamui and
Mananpur railway stations, about 170 km from
Patna, at 1320 hours and
fired
indiscriminately
for about half-an-hour
on the train and its passengers, Additional Director General of Police
(ADG), Law and Order,
S K Bharadwaj said.
The Maoists also looted
weapons from two RPF
personnel and later let
the train go towards its
onward journey, he said.

HYDERABAD:Chief
Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday informed that State
Legislative Assembly
the power consumers
have already paid or
will have to pay a total of Rs 10,806.84
crore towards Fuel
Surcharge
Adjustment from 2008-09 to
2012-13 (first quarter).
In his reply to a
question raised by
MLAs Bhuma Shobha
Nagi Reddy (YSRCP),

Akbaruddin
Owaisi
(MIM), E Lakshminarayana (BJP) and
others, the Chief Minister said that as per
the terms and conditions of the Retail
Tariff order, the FSA
is applicable for payment due to increase
in power cost as notified by the Commission from time to time
as per the regulation.
An appeal is pending in the Supreme
Court with regard to
the collection of Rs
1,639 crore for the year
2008-09. Similarly, an
appeal is pending in
High Court for collection of Rs 1,402 Crore
towards
2009-10.
However, for 2010-11,
Rs 2,068.16 crore FSA
has been approved and
being collected in 12

monthly installments
from October 2012 to
September 2013. Likewise, for 2011-12, Rs
3,957.48 crore has been
approved and will be
collected in 12 monthly installments starting from October 2013
to September 2014.
For the first quarter of
2012-13, an amount of
Rs 1,740.20 Crore has
been approved and already collected in three
monthly installments
from October 2012
to December 2012.
The Chief Minister
said that the FAS was
being levied as per the
actual cost incurred for
supply of power to consumers as approved by
the Regulatory Commissioner and the State
Government has no role
in this regard. (INN)

Hitzacker : German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks along river Elbe during her
visit to in Hitzacker, northern Germany, to get first hand information of the flood
situation.

New Delhi : Gangotri Kumari (L) from Jharkhand, Shibu Sing (2nd L) from West Bengal
and Bindeshwar (R) who delivered speech during a function on World Day Against Child
Labour in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Birmingham: Australias Adam Voges hits four runs off the bowing of New
Zealands Mitchell McClenaghan, not pictured, during their group stage ICC
Trophy cricket match at Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, Wednesday, June 12,
2013.

Mumbai: Cricketer Ankit Chauhan after he was released on bail in IPL spotfixing case.

Tinsukia: Illegal thatched houses constructed by people of Arunachal Pradesh at
Assam- Arunachal Pradesh border in Tinsukia on Wednesday

Mumbai: Bollywood actress Kavita Verma posing during a photoshoot.

News Maker

Hyderabad | Friday | June 14, 2013

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T-issue continues to paralyse SCR cancels several trains
Assembly proceedings
HYDERABAD: The
State Legislative Assembly was adjourned
without carrying out
any business for the
third consecutive day
on Thursday following
protest by the TRS and
other opposition parties
over Telangana issue.
As soon as the House
met on Thursday at 9
AM, Speaker Nadendla
Manohar disallowed all
adjournment motions
moved by the opposition parties. The TDP
and YSR Congress parties moved separate adjournment motions on
rising prices of essential commodities; the

TRS and BJP wanted
Telangana resolution
in the House; the MIM
raised the issue of rape
of a Muslim student
in Nalgonda; the CPI
asked for permission
for Chalo Assembly
rally and CPI-M wanted
debate on washer men
problems.
However,
the Speaker disallowed
all the motions and began Question Hour.
Following the Speaker’s refusal, all the opposition parties started
raising slogans pressing
for their demands. The
TRS and BJP members
went near the Speaker’s
podium, while the YS-

RCP MLAs protested
by standing near their
seats. The furore led to
the adjournment of the
House for half-an-hour
at about 9.08 AM. The
Speaker then called the
meeting of all floor
leaders in his chambers.
The House re-assembled at about 11.42 AM
with Deputy Speaker
Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on the chair. He
announced that all the
questions raised in the
Question Hour were
deemed to be answered.
However, the TRS and
BJP continued their
protest near the Speaker’s podium. Within

six minutes of its resumption, the House
was again adjourned
for half-an-hour at
about
11.48
AM.
When the House re-assembled at about 12.42
PM, on the Speaker’s
direction, Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy introduced
the Andhra Pradesh Tax
on Professions, Trades,
Callings and Employees (Amendment) Bill
2013. However, following strong protest
by the TRS members,
the Speaker adjourned
the House for day at
about 12.46 PM. (INN)

HYDERABAD: Consequent to the call for
Chalo Assembly on Friday given by the Telangana Political Joint
Action Committee, the
South Central Railway
has cancelled, partially-cancelled or diverted several trains passing through the region.
According to the SCR,
three train leaving on
Thursday have been
partially cancelled. The
Train No.57564 Nanded
(d 23.30) – Hyderabad (a
07.45) is partially cancelled between Bollaram
and Hyderabad. The
Train No.57550 Aurangabad (d 1530)-Hyderabad (a 07.05) leaving on
Thursday at Aurangabad is partially cancelled
between
Lingampalli
and Hyderabad and will
be run back as Train
No.57547 ex. Lingampalli on Friday. Similarly, the Train No.57129

HYDERABAD:
The
MLAs of Telangana
Rashtra Samithi, BJP
and CPI on Thursday
met Governor ESL
Narasimhan
seeking
his intervention in getting permission for the
Chalo Assembly rally.
The MLAs told the
Governor that the proposed rally on Friday
could be conducted
peacefully if the State
Government
extends
cooperation. They also
complained that the

government was resorting to indiscriminate
arrests of pro-Telangana leaders and workers.
Meanwhile, the TRS
MLA met Director General of Police V Dinesh
Reddy seeking permission for the Chalo Assembly rally. Besides
condemning the arrest
of pro-Telangana activists, the TRS MLAs
said that the tension
over rally could be diffused if the police permit the same. (INN)

Spl Task Force to check
Red Sander smuggling gets
CM’s nod
HYDERABAD: Chief
Minister N Kiran Kumar
Reddy has approved the
constitution of a special
task force with forest
and police personnel
to have an effective
monitoring and to curb
smuggling of Red Sanders in Kadapa, Chittoor
and Nellore Districts.
The Chief Minister
directed the officials
to take stringent action
against the accused
with coordinate efforts.
The task force will be
headed by Additional

SP of Police assisted
by one DSP, two Circle
Inspectors, 4 SIs from
the police side. One
Asst. Conservator, two
forest range officers,
four Forest Section Officers from the forest
side will assist the task
force with one armed
platoon at its disposal.
The Headquarters of
the Additional SP, Task
Force will be at Tirupati and the area of
his jurisdiction will be
Kadapa, Chittoor and
Nellore Districts. (INN)

National body builder Mohtesham Ali distributes prizes among students of Imperial High School at Kotla Alijah
here on Thursday - INN Photos

Good Samaritan Donates
Blood Over 105 Times
HYDERABAD: A social worker Yogesh
Raj Srivastav, 49, has
claimed that he donated blood for at least
105 times so far for
victims during their
emergencies and in incidents like Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad.
Known for bagging
a number of bravery
awards, including Godfrey Philips Bravery
Award in 2008 and this
year, Srivatsav received
a ‘Wonder Record for

Wonderful
Achievement’
certificate.
GHMC Special Commissioner Navin Mittal, who was the chief
guest at the award
function on Thursday,
lauded Srivastav for
serving his best to the
mankind through blood
donation in various occasions. He congratulated him for achieving ‘Wonder record
for Wonder Achievement’
certificate.
Dr Sowmya Mishra,

IPS, IGP (welfare) exhorted youth to draw inspiration from Srivastav,
who was only a single
person serving humanity
with great commitment.
Yogesh Raj Srivastav
said he started serving
humankind being a pharmacist and a Red Cross
member. He appealed
to the youth in the twin
cities to come forward to
donate blood on the occasion of ‘World Blood
Donors Day’ to the Red
Cross Society. (NSS)

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Hyderabad | Friday | June 14, 2013

Vehicle lifter arrested

HYDERABAD: A under graduate student
turned into vehicle lifter.
The accused Nalwade
Sudeshwar Rao alias
Sudesh
discontinued
B.Sc. computers in the
year 2007. From the year
2007 to 2012 he worked
at various hospitals like

Hope children hospital
at Basheerbagh, Seha
hospital at Lakdikapool, Goodwill hospital,
Masabtank in Hyderabad city as receptionist
cum billing executive.
Further he addicted
to consume Tadi (kallu)
and womanizing. In or-

der to earn easy money to fulfil his desires,
he planned to commit
theft of bikes and to dispose the same. In that
process, he committed
theft of total 10 bikes
in the limits of Afzalgunj police station (5
Bajaj Pulsar bikes, 3

Ministers Resent TDLP
Letter To Speaker
HYDERABAD: Taking objection to the letter
addressed by the TDLP to
the Speaker questioning
the Chair, several Ministers have alleged that
the TDP act was highly
objectionable and asked
the Speaker to initiate
action against the TDP
members in this regard.
Speaking to the media at the CLP office here
on Thursday, Legislature
Affairs Minister D Sridhar Babu dubbed the

letter as unfortunate and
painful. He said the Opposition party has to cooperate with the chair on
par with the ruling party
to run the House smoothly. He said it was not
proper to the TDP to dishonor the Chair. He said
the complaint against the
chair was undemocratic and condemnable act.
He said the ruling
party was ready for any
discussion in the House,
but the Opposition par-

ty not only not cooperating with the chair, it
also addressed a letter
using highly objectionable words. He said the
Chair gave more time to
the Leader of the Opposition than the leader of
the House since 2009.
He said the Speaker never showed any discrimination against the parties.
Agriculture Minister
Kanna Laxminarayana
alleged that the TDP has
the dubious distinction

of pulling the collar of
then Speaker Alapati
Dharma Rao. He asked
Chandrababu Naidu as to
why he was leaving for
America if he had love
towards farmers. He also
alleged that Chandrababu Naidu had failed totally in making the chair to
run the House properly.
Describing the day as
black day, Kanna asked
the Speaker to initiate
action against the TDP
members. He said it was

not proper to the TDP
members to try to become
champions in the House
by stalling the proceedings. E n d o w m e n t s
Minister C Ramachandraiah said Chandrababu
Naidu was the most destabilizing force and was
disturbing the House to
prevent the discussion on
public issues. He advised
Chandrababu to change
his attitude at least now
and learn how to respect the Chair. (NSS)

What’s Up Hyderabad

Hyderabad | Friday | June 14, 2013

5

Traffic Diversions On Roads OU Students’ Bid To
Gatecrash
Assembly
Around The Assembly

HYDERABAD: The
traffic diversions will be
undertaken as per the
requirement in view of
“Chalo Assembly” programme by Telangana
Political Joint Action
Committee on June14,
2013 demanding formation of separate Telangana State and extension of support by
Pro-Telangana organizations TRS, CPI, BJP,
TSJACs, CPI-ML (ND),
JACs of Employees,
Doctors, Advocates, etc
from 6 a.m. onwards.
Commuters are advised
to avoid the routes .
The vehicular traffic
coming from Ranigunj

HYDERABAD:
Information
Minister
DK Aruna on Thursday informed that the
Legislative Assembly
that the State Government was seriously
examining the issue
of allotment of prime
land at Jubilee Hills
to three film personalities for establishment of recording and
re-recording
theatre.
Replying to a question raised by Congress
MLA P Vishnuvardhan
Reddy during Question Hour, the Minis-

ter said that the State
Government, in June
1984, had allocated
half acre of land each
to film director K Raghavendra Rao, music
director Chakravarthy
and K Krishna Mohan
of Prakash Productions
for construction of recording and re-recording theatres, Editing
and Outdoor units at
the rate of Rs 8,500 per
acre, from out of twoand-a-half-acres
of
land opposite to Prasab
Film
Laboratories.
On April 22, 2006,
the government issued
an order to resume the
allotted land as the allotte has resorted to
other activities in the
land. The Municipal
Corporation of Hyderabad was directed stop
the construction activity in the plots allotted
to Raghavendra RAo
and Krishna Mohan
Rao and the Hyderabad
Collector was asked to

resume the lands allotted to the individuals.
Aggrieved by the
Government
Orders,
the individuals have
filed writ petitions before the High Court
and subsequently, the
High Court in its common order dated July
20, 2007, observed that
the orders issued by the
government were violative of natural justice
in as much as they have
been issued without a
Show Cause Notice and
directed the respondents to take necessary
steps in accordance
with law. Accordingly, the government has
issued show cause notice to the concerned
individuals and they
submitted explanations
to the government.
The minister said that
the subject matter was
under serious examination by the government and orders will be
issued shortly. (INN)

towards Assembly from
Old MLA Qtrs and Liberty will be diverted at
Café Bahar Lane towards
King Koti. The vehicular traffic coming from
Chiragali lane intending
to go towards Khan Lateef Khan Building / Basheerbagh will be diverted towards GPO. The
vehicular traffic coming
from Boguulakunta /
King Koti towards Basheerbagh will be diverted at Ramkote towards
Kachiguda x roads. The
vehicular traffic will not
be permitted beyond
V.V.Statue. The vehicular traffic coming from
Red Hills Road (Bazharghat) will not be allowed
to proceed towards
Nirankari Bhavan and
will be diverted towards
Masab Tank. The vehicular traffic coming
from Anand Nagar Colony and Chintal Basti
towards Nirankari Road
will not be allowed on
to the main road. The
vehicular traffic coming from MJ Market /
Exhibition Road will be

HYDERABAD:
The
Osmania
University campus once again
turned into a battle zone
on the eve of Telangana Political JAC-sponsored ‘Chalo Assembly’
program on June 14.
The determined students made an attempt
to surge towards the
Assembly, creating tension in the area. Heavy
police posse was posted at the university to
prevent students from

moving out of the campus. A three-tier barricade was set up. Still
when the police tried to
stop the students at the
NCC gate, they tried
to jump over the gate.
They attempted to cross
the barbed wires and
barricades to go to the
Assembly. Police, who
closed all the entrances
and exits of the university, had a tough time in
controlling the situation.
Students hurled stones

at the police, who in
turn, lobbed several
rounds of teargas shells.
However, eight students succeeded in
crossing the police barricades and tried to rush
towards the Assembly.
Students, who managed to reach the Public Gardens at Nampalli
beside the Assembly
building, tried to gatecrash into the Assembly. However, police
arrested them. (NSS)

HC seeks collector, movie Jiah suicide: “Respect
halls reply on petition life more than love” SRK
MUMBAI: The Bombay
High Court directed the
collector of Mumbai and
suburbs, movie theatres
as well as multiplexes to
file their affidavit today,
in reply to a petition
seeking implementation of
a Government Resolution
(GR) restraining additional
charges
for
online
booking of movie tickets.
Filed by an advocate
Sunil Lalla, the Public
Interest Litigation (PIL)
had sought a direction
to all movie theatres and
multiplexes in the state to
not levy ‘internet handling
fee’
or
‘convenience
charge’ over and above the
cost of the movie ticket.

A division bench of Chief
Justice Mohit Shah and
Justice M S Sanklecha
directed the collector of
Mumbai city and Mumbai
suburbs to file an affidavit
stating what steps it had
taken to implement the
GR dated April 4, 2013.
The court has also
directed other respondents BookMyShow, Big Cinema
(Reliance
Mediaworks),
Fame India Ltd, INOX
cinema, Fun Multiplex,
Sterling
Complex,
Globus
Cinema,
New
Excelsior
Cinema,
24
Karat Multiplex, HDIL
Broadway, Abhiruchi City
Pride and E-Square cinema
to file their affidavits by

June 25, so that the matter
could be heard on June 27.
On April 16, Lalla had
booked a ticket online
through BookMyShow to
watch a movie at Sterling
theatre in South Mumbai.
He was charged Rs 193.48
and he found out that
though the ticket was priced
at Rs 180, he was charged
Rs 13.48 as “internet
handling fee”. After he
sent a notice to respondents
seeking clarification for
charging an additional fee
when the government has
prohibited it, he received
a reply from Sterling
stating that they are “not
aware” of any such order.
Lalla then approached

the high court. “Some
theatres charge upto Rs
25 for online booking.
Despite the government
resolution
specifically
saying that viewers should
not be charged, it is not
being
followed,”
the
petitioner’s
advocates
Birendra Saraf and Ameet
Naik argued today. When
Chief Justice Shah asked
why the collector has not
circulated the government
resolution to all movie
theatres,
government
pleader Geeta Shastri said
that it has been circulated.
Shastri has sought time to
collect information from the
collector on the matter.(PTI)

superstar Shah Rukh Khan
says life should not be
less important than love.

Jiah, 25, was found
hanging at her flat in Sagar
Sangeet Building in the posh
Juhu area on June 3 around
midnight. She apparently
left a note, which points
fingers towards Aditya
Pancholi’s
son
Suraj,
who has been arrested in
connection with her suicide.
Jiah and Suraj were in a
relationship for quite some
time and reportedly there
were problems between
the couple, which seem to
have forced her to take the
extreme step. “Everyone
has different definition of
love. Love is a universal
thing. I play the role of a
lover which are written by
a set of people...it is their
interpretation of love. But

I feel we should respect
life more than love,” Shah
Rukh told reporters here
at the first look launch of
‘Chennai Express’. “There
are going to be difficult
times in everyone’s life
but one must not give up,
and respect life. Every
problem will be sorted out,
don’t lose hope,” he said.
Jiah made her debut
with
Ram
Gopal
Varma’s
‘Nishabd’
alongside
megastar
Amitabh
Bachchan.
She
later
appeared
in Aamir Khan starrer
‘Ghajini’ and then in a
supporting role in Akshay
Kumar’s ‘Housefull’, which
was her last film.(PTI)

I want to create my own identity: Would love to sing for SRK
Sonam Kapoor

Mumbai, Jun 13 (PTI) Actress
Sonam Kapoor insists that she has
never tried to cash-in on the success
of her father Anil Kapoor but rather
wants to focus on creating her
own identity in the film industry.
Sonam made her debut with Sanjay
Leela Bhansali’s ‘Saawariya’ in 2007
opposite Ranbir Kapoor. In 2010,
her father and sister Rhea produced a
film ‘Aisha’ starring her. The 28-yearold actress maintains that she is close
to her father but does not want to
use his fame as a stepping stone.

“He has worked so hard all his
life to be Anil Kapoor. I don’t want
to use that for myself because that
is all his. I don’t want to use that
as a stepping stone for myself. He
deserves more than that. Suppose I
don’t do well, I don’t want my life to
reflect on his life,” Sonam told PTI.
“He has his own journey and I don’t
want to take that away from him. My
dad gets very upset as I don’t take
too many pictures with him or do
films or take money from him. He is
like ‘why am I earning, it is all for

you people’. He is proud of me that I
am doing well on my own,” she said.
Sonam is very fond of her father,
who like any regular parent keeps
embarrassing her by talking about his
daughter’s achievements all the time.
“It is embarrassing that he talks about
me all the time. He clicks pictures
and shows to everyone that it’s my
daughter. It is so embarrassing. I
love my dad,” Sonam said. Sonam
is happy to have made a place
in the industry as a fashionista.
“People see me as Anil Kapoor’s
daughter but they also see me as a fashion
icon, Sonam Kapoor who says all the
wrong things. I have really worked
to have my own separate identity.
I
have
done
it
because
of
my
dad,”
Sonam
said.
Her films post ‘Saawariya’ like
‘Delhi 6’, ‘Aisha’ ‘Thank You’
and ‘Mausam’ failed to click with
audience except ‘I Hate Love Storys’.
“I did introspect about my career. I
realised I wasn’t comfortable playing
these characters as I thought I wasn’t
convincing or good enough to play them.
At that time I took a conscious decision
and stopped signing films. I needed to
be proud of the films that I do,” she said.
Sonam has an interesting range of
films lined up for release Anand L
Rai’s ‘Ranjhaana’, ‘Bhaag Milkha
Bhaag’, a biopic on legendary
sportsman Milkha Singh, where she
is paired opposite Farhan Akhtar.
She is also doing a film with
YRF
opposite
Ayushmann
Khurrana and also the remake
version
of
‘Khubsoorat’.(PTI)

Don’t want to retire at 30:
Actress Richa Chadda

NEW DELHI: ‘Gangs
of Wasseypur’ star Richa
Chadda wonders why she is
often questioned about her
unconventional choices and
not those actresses who opt
for challenging roles only
when they are in their 30s.
The 28-year-old actress
started her career playing
the jealous sister of the
lead heroine in Dibakar
Banerjee’s ‘Oye Lucky

Lucky Oye’ and got
recognition for her portrayal
of a ganster’s wife and
later a widow in Anurag
Kashyap’s two-part revenge
saga ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’.
Richa does not see herself
taking the typical route to
success where a heroine
does
2-3
commercial
movies, an item number
and retires at the age of 30.
“I wonder if anybody asks

people who do conventional
roles that when will they
start
acting?
Because
normally what happens is
- Win a Miss India, do 1-2
movies, do an item song and
then they suddenly realise
that they are 32-33 and need
to act. “So they will do one
award-winning
regional
film and people will be
‘Wow she is a good actress’.
I am just going the reverse
way. I want to relax and
have fun. I don’t want my
career to finish in my 30s,”
Richa told PTI. Her life
post ‘GOW’ has changed
drastically and Richa feels
she is in a much secure
position as an actor now.
“Life has changed in
a major way because
earlier I would wonder If
I would get work, If I can
sustain my career as an
actor, If I can make that
my livelihood. But now I
am very comfortable and
secure with that thought.
I can be a professional
actor in the industry and
people are accepting me.
“If I go to a party I
wouldn’t be left alone. I can
talk to Amitabh Bachchan
and Shah Rukh Khan by
going upto them and just

introducing myself and they
will know me. There is a
lot of respect and love that
I get from the industry for
which I am very fortunate,”
she added. . Richa, who will
be seen playing a gangster
in new movie ‘Fukrey’,
releasing this Friday, says
she is nothing like the
characters she plays onscreen. “It is no fun playing
yourself. I am the exact
opposite of the characters I
play. I barely abuse, I don’t
eat meat because I don’t
believe in violence. I try not
to use leather, I am almost
vegan. So for someone
like me its more fun to
play these horrible roles
because I will never get
to be that in real life.” It’s
been a busy year for Richa
who has been shooting for
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s
‘Ram Leela’, ‘Tamanchey’,
Mira Nair’s short film and
a romantic project opposite
Neil Nitin Mukesh. She
says though there has been
a gap between ‘GOW’ and
her other projects, she has
about 4-5 releases in the
second half of the year.(PTI)

and Ranbir: Ankit Tiwari

NEW DELHI: Indian singer Ankit
Tiwari, who shot to fame with ‘Sun
raha hai tu’ song from ‘Ashiqiue
2’, says he would love to be the
voice of Shah Rukh Khan and
Ranbir Kapoor on the silver screen.
“It is not practical for a playback
singer to sing all the songs of a
particular movie today. Earlier, a singer

used to sing for a particular actor like
Mukesh was the voice of Raj Kapoor
and Kishore Kumar was the screen
voice for Rajesh Khanna. I hope to
sing for Shah Rukh Khan and Ranbir
Kapoor someday,” Tiwari said. The
Kanpur boy has also sung the theme
song of Star Parivaar Awards 2013,
slated to take place this week. The

theme song is a cover of Mohammed
Rafi’s famous number ‘Tum jo mil
gaye ho’ and features a duet between
Tiwari and Sunidhi Chauhan. It
has been directed by Sachin Gupta.
Tiwari says he has not tried
to imitate or match Rafi in the
song but hopes audience like it.
“Every singer has his own way
of singing. I have sung the song
keeping in mind the fact that it talks
about family where as the original
was a romantic number. Comparing
it with the original version would
be wrong as I am nowhere next to
the Rafi saab,” said Tiwari. The
singer has previously worked in
movies like ‘Do Dooni Chaar’
and ‘Saheb, Biwi aur Gangstar’.
It was ‘Khoob Ladi Mardani’, a song
that he composed on ‘Rani Lakshmi
Bai’ that gave Tiwari a chance to
sing in Mohit Suri’s ‘Aashiqui 2’.
“When ‘Aashiqui’ came I was only
three. I never thought that there will
be a remake and I will get a chance
to sing in that movie,” he said.(PTI)

Channels must refrain from
airing ads of ‘miracle’ products
NEW DELHI: Telecast of
advertorials which promise
miraculous products or self
proclaimed babas and gurus
who offer super natural
solutions on TV has not
gone down well with the
I&B ministry which has
told channels to refrain
from showing such content.
Sources told PTI that
after noticing that many TV
channels were telecasting
programmes
which
appeared to encourage
superstition, the Information
and Broadcasting ministry
had issued an advisory to
broadcasters last week.
In its advisory, the
ministry said that were
advertisements in which
unsubstantiated claims were
made about products which
the general audience could
easily believe as truth.
“Such advertisements or
advertorials are, therefore,
not only misleading, they

also appear to encourage
superstition and blind belief
among the viewers,” the
ministry’s advisory said.
The advisory also says
that “most advertorials
relating to astrology, vastu,
so called discourses by
gurus and self proclaimed
healers are being shown
for hours together in such
a way that it might lead
viewers to believe they are
watching a programme even
though they are actually

watching advertisements.”
The I&B ministry further
added that the telecast
of such content on TV
amounted to gross violation
of the Advertising Code
contained in the Cable TV
Networks Rules, 1994.
It said that as per rules
advertisements should not
contain any references
which are likely to make
the
audiences
believe
that the product or any
of its ingredients have
some miraculous or super
natural property which
it is difficult to prove.
The ministry has also
asked all TV channels
including
news
and
current affairs channels,
to telecast programmes,
advertisements, features or
reports with due care and
maturity particularly with
a way not to encourage
superstition
and
blind
belief and mislead viewers.

“It is also brought to the
notice of all TV channels
that any violation of
the programme code or
advertising code would
attract penal provisions
detailed in section 20 of
the Cable TV Networks
(Regulation) Act 1995 and
the terms and conditions of
uplinking and downlinking
guidelines,”
it
said.
Officials
said
that
while the ministry had
sternly
sounded
the
channels against telecast
of misleading ads, it has
also asked its Electronic
Media Monitoring Centre
(EMMC) to keep an eye
on the commercials being
telecast on TV channels and
report in case of violations.
The ministry has also
asked all channels to
submit a compliance report
with regard to the telecast
of such advertisements,
officials
said.(PTI)

Ladakh film festival to showcase ‘’women in cinema’’

MUMBAI: National award winning
actress and director Aparna Sen will
head the jury of the second Ladakh
International Film Festival (LIFF), to be
held from July 5 to 7. The focus of LIFF
this year is ‘women in cinema’ with the
tag line “celebrating womanhood.” The
festival will be inaugurated by Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
while Information and Broadcasting
Minister Manish Tiwari will be the
chief guest for the closing ceremony.
“LIFF is definitely a film festival

with a difference. Some of the most
exciting recently made films will be
viewed, discussed and awarded by
some of the best filmmakers of the
world at an incomparable venue high
up amidst snowy mountain ranges,”
LIFF jury chairperson Aparna Sen
said in a statement. The Green Carpet
premiere this year will be of the film
on South Asia’s great freedom fighter,
nationalist Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- ‘The Frontier Gandhi’ - by American
documentary filmmaker Teri McLuhan.
“The LIFF which will be two years
old when it takes place this year,
has already found place among the
recognised film festivals of the world,”
LIFF chairman Shyam Benegal said.
Festival founder and director Melwyn

Chirayath said this year they will try to
encourage participation of nearly 100
countries across the globe. Over 1.6
lakh footfalls, 150 plus filmmakers and
film dignitaries from around the world
attended the first ever international
event held in Leh, Ladakh last year.
“To watch films in one of the most
pristine landscapes in the world is a rare
pleasure only the Ladakh film festival
offers. One walks out of the auditorium and
is surrounded by mountains on all sides,
it’s almost surreal. What makes it even
more special this year is the retrospective
on Gulzarsaab. It will be an honour for
me to curate this event which showcases
some of his best work,” LIFF patron
member Vishal Bhardwaj said.(PTI)

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Up Hyderabad
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Black hole bonanza in ‘next door’
Andromeda galaxy

Black holes contain the keys to
a deeper understanding of the universe.
So finding 26 in our neighbouring
galaxy is a big deal Gas falling
into a black holes emits X-rays and

betrays the invisible ‘death stars’ to
astronomers. Photograph: Dimitar
Todorov/Alamy Twenty-six new black
hole candidates have been discovered
in the neighbouring Andromeda

galaxy. According to the astronomers
involved, these could be just the tip
of the iceberg. Details of the find
will be published in the 20 June issue
of The Astrophysical Journal. The

Don’t cage birds, let them
fly, urges Adah Sharma

Actress
Adah
Sharma
joins
PETA’s
latest
ad
campaign
to extend her support against
cruelty and caging of birds
Varinder Chawla Mumbai: Actress
Adah Sharma has joined PETA’s
latest ad campaign to extend her
support against cruelty and caging
of birds and has urged the people to
let the feathered creatures fly freely.
“Don’t keep birds in cages. Don’t
keep any other animal or any
wildlife, especially birds, in cages.

They (birds) are wild animals and
not domesticated animals like cats
and dogs,” Adah told reporters here
Tuesday while shooting for PETA’s
(People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals) latest ad campaign. The
‘1920’ and ‘Hum Hai Raahi Car
Ke’ fame actress discourages people
from caging birds. “I don’t encourage
people who keep birds or any other
animal in cages. It’s a heinous crime
and you should not do it,” said the
24-year-old. For the campaign’s

photo shoot, Adah dressed herself in
white attire to look like a bird and
locked herself in a cage. “People clip
the wings of birds sometimes and
just leave them out in their house and
they say we are leaving them free to
roam around in the house, but that is
not freedom,” she said, adding that
putting birds in cages is like giving
them the death sentence. “So don’t
keep birds in cages, don’t give them
that death sentence,” Adah said.(PTI)

discoveries are the culmination of 13
years of observation. Researchers used
Nasa’s Chandra and the European
Space
Agency’s
XMM-Newton
satellites. Both record the X-ray

light emitted by celestial objects.
Black holes are the most mysterious
objects in the universe. They are
regions of space in which the density
of matter has become so great that the
gravitational field is overwhelming.
They will devour anything that strays
too close. Once inside, nothing can
escape back into space, not even light.
So, strictly speaking you can’t see black
holes. You have to infer their presence
from X-rays given out as they rip near
y stars to pieces. Hence the reason
astronomers refer to these as black
hole candidates. Even so, it’s big news.
Black holes were first discovered not in
space but on the pages of a notepad in
the German trenches of the first world
war. Physicist Karl Schwarzschild
was serving as an artillery officer
on the Russian front in 1915. In his
spare time, he was investigating
Albert Einstein’s controversial new
theory of gravity: general relativity.
He found an equation that suggested
regions of space and time could
become like lobster pots, trapping
anything that fell into them. The
point of no return around these “black
holes” was dubbed the event horizon.
Schwarzschild completed the work
shortly before facing his own event
horizon. He contracted a painful
skin disease called pemphigus
and was returned to Germany,
where he died in May 1916.
It took astronomers decades to
convince themselves that black

holes existed in nature. Convincing
proof came in the 1970s when
Nasa launched the Uhuru X-ray
satellite and discovered Cygnus
X-1, the first black hole candidate.
It made such headlines at the time
that prog-rockers Rush (naturally)
wrote a two-part epic song spanning
two albums (again naturally) about it.
Black holes are no mere curiosities;
they are the keys to a deeper
understanding of the universe. No
theory of physics can yet say what
is happening inside a black hole.
General relativity suggests that
Schwarzschild’s event horizon is
an invisible boundary that can be
crossed without consequence but
never returned from. Recently,
however, quantum mechanics make
it look as though the event horizon
could be a real boundary and that
crossing it will result in destruction.
This has been dubbed the firewall.
Both cannot be right. One must
be wrong. Whichever one is
right points us towards a greater
understanding
of
gravity
and
how it behaves on small scales.
While these new black holes may
not immediately help in the quest
for a new theory of gravity, they are
nevertheless extraordinary. The more
black holes astronomers identify,
the more they will be able to study
them and learn their secrets.(PTI)

Telegram services to shut down from July 15
Citing declining revenues and other faster
modes of communication, BSNL has decided to
discontinue the 160-year-old telegram service

With the dawn of the digital era, where
e-mails and SMSes have taken over
as the new modes of communication,
the 160-year-old telegram service
will be discontinued from July 15. A
telegram was in the past the fastest
mode of communication in India.
BSNL will shut down the service
from July 15. Representation pic/AFP
According to a circular issued by
Shameem Akhtar, senior General
Manager
(Telegraph
Services)
BSNL, the telegraph service is to be
discontinued with effect from July
15, 2013. The circular sent to various
telecom district and circle offices
denotes that services will be shut from
July 15 and that all BSNL telegraph
offices will have to stop booking
telegrams from July 15. The telegram,
which was once the only source of
quick and urgent communication in
the country, delivered many cheerful
and gloomy news to people across
India. From the birth of a child to the
sudden demise of a relative — the
telegram service has seen it all. But
over the years, with the advent of

modern technology the service has
been more or less forgotten by the
masses. The BSNL circular has also
directed the telecom offices to maintain
the logs, service messages, delivery
slips for duration of six months from
the date of booking. However, any
complaints, press reports and other
messages from different consumer
fora are to be kept for at least one year.
According to sources, the BSNL had
asked the government to support the
service as it was not commercially
viable but the government in response
said that the BSNL board should take
a decision on it. “After consulting with
the Department of Posts, we have taken
the decision to close the service, as there
are other better options available,” said
a source from the Delhi BSNL office.
Surplus staff The BSNL has instructed
that the staff from the telegraph
offices would be deployed to mobile
services, landline and broadband
services. The departments would take
approximately three months to shift
the staff to these relevant departments.
Owing to falling revenues, in May

2011, after a period of nearly six
decades, the government had revised
the telegram charges. The telegram
charges were hiked from Rs 3 per 50
words to Rs 27 per 50 words for inland
services. Earlier this year, in April,
BSNL had withdrawn the telegram
services for overseas communication.
Did
you
know?
Telegrams receipts are accepted in
courts as evidence in civil or criminal suits
The telegram was a handy mode
of
communication
for
jawans
and armed forces for seeking
leave, transfer or joining reports
1855 The year in which the first
public telegram service commenced
Rs 1 The charge for sixteen words
including the address in 1855
6 pm to 6 am Charges
were
doubled
for
telegrams
1990 The year in which the telegram
service was handed over to BSNL
Rs 27 The telegram charges
were hiked in May 2011(PTI)

National
What’s Up Hyderabad

Food Ordinance put on hold

NEW
DELHI:
Government today put
on hold its plans to bring
an Ordinance on Food
Security in the face of
opposition within and
outside and decided to
make another attempt to
evolve a consensus to
get it through in a special
session of Parliament.
The
proposal
was
deferred when it came
up at the Union Cabinet
meeting this morning with
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh saying there was
need to take parties
along on this measure.

Congress sources said that
it was Sonia Gandhi who
impressed upon the Prime
Minister the need to go for
a consensus and pass it in
a special session without
rushing with an ordinance.
However, the government
has not closed the option of
resorting to promulgating
an Ordinance if there is
no consensus during the
meetings it plans with
Opposition on the issue.
After
the
hour-long
Cabinet meeting, Finance
Minister P Chidambaram
told reporters that the
government will make

one more attempt to forge
consensus with opposition
parties on passage of
the bill in a special
session of Parliament.
“The
Food
Security
Bill is ready. We would
like to pass it as a bill but
Ordinance version of bill
is also ready. We decided
today that we would like
to make one more effort
to ask the Opposition
parties whether they will
cooperate in passing the
bill in a special session of
Parliament,” Chidambaram
said. Significantly, ahead
of the Cabinet meeting,

Pawar, who is said to
have reservations over
the ordinance route for
the measure, met the
Prime Minister and is
believed to have insisted
that such a significant
legislation should not
be hustled through. The
Prime Minister also held
separate
discussions
with senior colleagues
including Finance Minister
P Chidambaram, Defence
Minister A K Antony
and Food Minister K V
Thomas on the desirability
of Ordinance to implement
UPA chairperson Sonia
Gandhi’s pet scheme that
seeks to provide cheap
foodgrains to 67 per cent
of country’s population.
The
government’s
decisions today also had
taken into account the
reservations expressed by
key outside ally Samajwadi
Party. Home Minister and
Leader of the Lok Sabha
Sushil Kumar Shinde,
Parliamentary
Affairs
Minister Kamal Nath and
Food Minister K V Thomas
will meet opposition leaders
to elicit their support,
Chidambaram
said.
Some Congress ministers
are also said to be having
reservations
on
the
Ordinance
route.(PTI)

Third front non-starter because
everyone wants to be PM: Lalu

SHIRDI:
Prasad

RJD

Yadav

president
today

said

Lalu

‘Third Front’ would not succeed

the

because all the potential members

the Opposition ‘just one more time’.
He has said this just as a school
teacher asks her students to
cooperate,”
BJP
spokesperson
Nirmala
Sitharaman
said.
The main Opposition was of the
view that a bill of such significance
and impact should only be passed
through due process in Parliament.
“Leader of the Opposition in Lok
Sabha Sushma Swaraj had tweeted
earlier that the monsoon session of
Parliament be advanced for passage
of the bill and opinions of all be taken
on the Land Acquisition and Food
Security bills,” she said. Sitharaman
said BJP is happy that the government
has given up the ordinance route.
“This government wanted to make
the food bill a political tool and get

it passed fast to get votes. There
are so many black points in this
government due to scams that they
want this bill to be passed,” she said.
The main Opposition said the bill
has failed to get the Parliament’s nod
twice in the past due to shortcomings.
It maintains that there are some
lacunae in the present draft and these
should be amended. BJP President
Rajnath Singh told reporters earlier in
the day that passing the Food Security
Bill through an ordinance would
be a “undemocratic step”. He said
it should be brought for discussion
and passage in the monsoon session.
BJP’s view is that the Chhattisgarh
Food Security Act is a model law
which should be followed by other
states as well as the Centre.(PTI)

Gehlot lays foundation of project
to construct 12,000 houses

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief
Minister Ashok Gehlot
today laid foundation
of an ambitious housing
project
to
construct
12,000 duplex houses
for poors in Sanjay
Nagar Bhatta Basti here.
Addressing a public
gathering, Gehlot said
all basic amenities and
facilities
like
water,
power, roads, school,
hospital and community
hall will be provided
under
the
project.
“Providing
housing
facilities to the poor is
in our priorities. The
government wants to
ensure that each family
has a roof and we are
working in this direction,”
Gehlot
said.
Gehlot
accused the Opposition

BJP of misleading people
by “false claims and
promises” and asked
people to stay away
from the “atmosphere”
created by the BJP.
Under
the
‘Rajiv
Gandhi housing scheme’
at Sanjay Nagar Bhatta
Basti, construction of
12,000 duplex houses
has been planned. 2,212
houses will be constructed
in the first phase with
an estimated cost of Rs
60.87 crore and will be
allotted to poor people
living in slums. Urban
Development
Minister
Shanti Dhariwal, MP
Mahesh Joshi, Mayor
Jyoti Khandelwal also
addressed the gathering.
They also accused the
BJP of “misleading”

people
about
the
status of the project.
Dhariwal said it was
the present Congress
government which made
efforts to get permission
from the Supreme Court
for the housing project
as, earlier, the land where
the project is to come
up was a forest land.
He said that previous
BJP government, despite
not having permission
from the Supreme Court,
had started leveling work
of the land and “misled
poor people” in 2007.
“Congress government
made efforts and got
permission
from
the
Supreme Court to initiate
this project. On the
basis of the permission
from the apex court,

the Central government
gave a fresh nod for the
project,” he said. BJP
had recently alleged that
the previous government,
led by Vasundhara Raje,
had laid the foundation
of the project but the
government changed in
2008 and the Congress
government
delayed
the project for 4 years.
Under the first phase of
the scheme, 2,212 duplex
houses will be constructed
and the house allottee will
have the right on roof.
Each duplex house on
24.96 sq yard and having
a
total
construction
area of 386 sq feet will
be constructed with an
estimated cost of Rs
4.25
lakh
(including
cost of both construction
and
basic
facilities).
The central government
will bear 50 per cent of the
construction cost whereas
the state government
and the Jaipur Municipal
Corporation will bear
20 per cent each and the
allottee will have to pay
remaining 10 per cent
of the constriction cost.
The house will cost Rs
26,450 to the allottee.
Gehlot, on the occasion,
also announced to extend
‘Prashashan Shehron Ke
Sang’ campaign till July
31. Dhariwal and other
public
representatives
had requested the CM
to extend the campaign
due to its success.(PTI)

of it harbor the ambition to
become the Prime Minister.
Talking
to
reporters
after
visiting the famous Saibaba
temple here, Yadav said that
leaders such as Mamata Banerjee,
Jayalalithaa, Nitish Kumar and
Mulayam Singh Yadav were
all aspiring to the top job.
Therefore,
the
grouping
would soon break up, he stated.
Hitting out at Bihar Chief
Minister, Yadav said that on one
hand Nitish Kumar talked about
development of Bihar under his
government, and on the other hand
he was pleading with the Centre
for special package for the state.
When asked about Narendra
Modi’s elevation in BJP as chief
of its campaign committee,
he
said
BJP was
nothing
but
“RSS’s
mask”.(PTI)

Coalition partner NCP sees
UPA-3 with additional allies

Chidambaram draws flak from
BJP for food bill remarks
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister
P Chidambaram today drew flak
from BJP for his remarks that
the government will reach out to
the Opposition “one more time”
for support to the Food Security
Bill with the party charging that
the UPA dispensation wants to
get is passed for electoral gains.
The Cabinet decision today to drop
the ordinance route for passage of
a legislation on food security was,
however, in keeping with the BJP
demand that the bill be passed only
after a debate and voting in Parliament.
“The Finance Minister has said the
government is considering a special
session of Parliament to pass the Food
Security Bill. If I got his words right I
think he said government will approach

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5

Hyderabad | Friday |June 14, 2013

MUMBAI: Predicting a
hung Parliament post 2014
general elections, NCP
today said it will continue
to be part of the Congressled UPA, which may
possibly expand itself with
additional allies, as none of
the party combines will be
able to form a government
on its own. “The current

situation in the country is
such that UPA and NDA on
their own will not be able to
form the next government.
Same is the case with the
emerging Third Front.
We feel that there are
chances of a expanded or
restructured UPA-3. It will
form the next government
with
additional

allies on a common
minimum
programme,”
NCP
spokesman
Nawab
Malik
said.
(NCP
spokesman
Nawab
Malik)
Congress along with its
existing allies in the UPA
including the NCP cannot
reach the 272 figure,
Malik said adding that
BJP and allies will also
fail to reach the required
tally. Malik said Sharad
Pawar is not in fray for
the Prime Minister’s post
adding that the NCP chief
has already made it clear
that he will not contest
the next lok sabha polls.
Taking a dig at BJP’s
campaign committee chief
and Guajrat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi, Malik
said, “former Lok Sabha
Speaker Manohar Joshi is a
big leader in Mumbai. Joshi
invited Modi to campaign

for him in the 2004 Lok
Sabha polls and was
defeated
convincingly.”
Appointment
of
the
new Maharashtra unit
chief will be done at
the extended working
committee meeting to be
chaired by Sharad Pawar
on Saturday, Malik said.
Incumbent
president
Madhukar Pichad has
resigned from his post
after his inclusion in the
council of ministers earlier
this week, he added. Malik
said ministers will not
be given responsibility
of heading the state unit
adding that the party
leadership has decided to
entrust the responsibility
of Lok Sabha elections
and organisational matters
to those six ministers
whose
resignations
were
accepted.(PTI)

Antony reviews delays
in submarine project

NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop
of depleting fleet of under water
vessels, Defence Minister A K Antony
today reviewed the reasons for delay in
issuing tender for the over Rs 50,000
crore ‘Project 75 India’ in which
six more diesel electric submarines
have to be procured for the Navy.
The P-75 India is a Navy project
expected to begin after the ongoing
project under which six Scorpene

submarines are being built by
the Mazagon Dockyards Limited
in
collaboration
with
French
DCNS. The Scorpene project is
also delayed by over three years.
“The Defence Minister reviewed
the reasons for delays in the P-75
India project and asked the authorities
concerned to hasten the progress,”
Ministry officials said here. Under
the project, the Navy has plans of

getting two submarines constructed
at the shipyard of the foreign
vendor bagging the contract while
the remain four would be built at
defence shipyards including MDL
and the Hindustan Shipyard Limited.
The Navy had issued the Request
for Information (RFI) for the project
over a couple of years ago and due
to several reasons, the project has
been getting delayed since then.
Defence Ministry will move the
Cabinet Committee on Security
soon for seeking approvals for the
construction of two submarines at
foreign shipyards as the previous
approval
was
for
indigenous
construction. India currently operates
a fleet of Russian Kilo Class and
German HDW submarines, of which
a significant number would be
phased out in the coming decade or
so. India has been working on a 30year submarine plan under which
24 submarines are to be constructed
till 2030 but with the delays, it
seems that achieving these numbers
would be a difficult task.(PTI)

DMK will decide on alliance
before LS polls: Karuna

NEW DELHI: The DMK will decide on the question of
alliance in Tamil Nadu in the run-up to the Lok Sabha
elections next year, party chief M Karunanidhi has said.

“The DMK will decide on when and with whom it should
forge an alliance during the run-up to the 2014 general elections.
“The DMK’s executive committee nad the general
council will discuss and decide on it based on the national
political situation at the time of the elections,” Karunanidhi
said in a signed article in “The Week” magazine.
He said the DMK was part of the ruling coalition at the Centre
for many years maintaining good relations with its allies.
“We have shown how an alliance partner should act
for the good of the nation. The DMK quit the UPA
not for the party’s benefit but for betterment of the
Sri Lankan Tamils,” the former chief minister said.
He said it was his mentor and leader C N Annadurai ‘Anna’ who
initiated alliance politics in the country. And he made it a success.
“During the 1967 Assembly polls he formed an alliance to
consolidate anti-government votes. I follow the practice even
now. At the national level, too, alliance politics has been
holding fort for more than 20 years,” Karunanidhi said. (PTI)

International
What’s Up Hyderabad

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Hyderabad | Friday |June 14, 2013

UN says at least 93,000 killed
in Syria conflict

GENEVA: At least 93,000 people,
including over 6,500 children, have
been killed in Syria’s civil war, the
United Nations said today, warning that
the true death toll could be far higher.
The skyrocketing number of
deaths over the past year, along
with documented cases of children
tortured and entire families massacred,
“is a terrible reminder of just how
vicious this conflict has become,”
UN rights chief Navi Pillay said.
Describing the killing as “senseless
carnage”, Pillay said the toll in a
new UN-commissioned study was
“most likely a minimum casualty

figure. The true number of those
killed is potentially much higher.”
The number of people killed has
skyrocketed over the past year,
with the average monthly toll since
July last year standing at more than
5,000, compared with 1,000 in the
summer of 2011, the study said. “This
extremely high rate of killings, month
after month, reflects the drastically
deteriorating pattern of the conflict
over the past year,” Pillay said. Nearly
27,000 people have been killed since
December alone, she said. “Civilians
are bearing the brunt of widespread,
violent and often indiscriminate attacks

which are devastating whole swathes
of major towns and cities, as well
as outlying villages,” she said. The
figures in the study, running from the
outbreak of the conflict in March 2011
to the end of April this year, compares
with a UN toll of 60,000 in November
and an estimate of 94,000 by a
monitoring group. Yesterday, another
grim UN report said Syrian children
were being used as sniper targets
and human shields, as well as facing
torture and recruitment as fighters.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the
near 27-month war was taking an
“unacceptable and unbearable” toll

on youngsters, and today’s study
found that at least 6,561 children
-- 1,729 of them under 10 years
old -- had lost their lives. (AFP)
“There are also well-documented
cases of individual children being
tortured and executed, and entire
families, including babies, being
massacred -- which, along with
this devastatingly high death toll,
is a terrible reminder of just how
vicious this conflict has become,”
said Pillay. She urged the global
community to step up peace efforts
to end a conflict that first began as
peaceful demonstrations against the
regime of President Bashar al-Assad
and has escalated into civil war.
“I urge the parties to declare an
immediate ceasefire before tens of
thousands more people are killed or
injured,” she said. “Nobody is gaining
anything from this senseless carnage.”
She criticised both sides, pointing to
government shelling and air attacks on
urban areas, and the rebels’ pounding
of residential areas, albeit with less fire
power, and bombings in the heart of
cities, notably the capital Damascus.
The study was commissioned from
the Human Rights Data Analysis
Group, a non-profit organisation of
statisticians, computer scientists,
demographers and social scientists.
They used eight sources, including
the government, rebels, and groups
such as the British-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, which
relies on a network of activists and
medics on the ground and last month
put the toll at more than 94,000. The
UN team crosschecked 263,055
killings, before excluding double-

counting and some 38,000 deaths for
which either a name, date or location
were lacking, giving a total of 92,901.
“This total is likely to underestimate
the actual number of killings,” the UN
rights office said, adding that “at least”
93,000 must have died and that there was
“a strong likelihood that a significant
number” may have gone unreported.
The study showed the hardest-hit
regions were the rural district around
Damascus, with 17,800 deaths, Homs,
where 16,400 were documented,
Aleppo, with 11,900, and Idlib, with
10,300. In Daraa -- the cradle of the
uprising -- there were 8,600 deaths,
followed by Hama with 8,100, urban
Damascus with 6,400 and Deir ez-Zor
5,700. The sharpest increases since
2012 were recorded in rural Damascus
and Aleppo, with 6,200 and 4,800
new documented deaths respectively.
Some 82.6 per cent of the
documented victims were male
and 7.6 per cent female. (AFP)
Lankan govt to present “urgent bill”
next week to amend 13A COLOMBO:
Notwithstanding the objections from
India and Tamil minority parties,
an “urgent bill” will be presented
in Sri Lankan parliament next week
aimed at diluting the provincial
council powers devolved in terms
of the 1987 Indo-Lanka accord. “An
urgent bill would be submitted next
Tuesday”, Keheliya Rambukwella,
the government spokesman said.
Rambukwella said the bill would
deal with repealing of the provincial
powers to merge with another
province. “Even when the Rajiv
Gandhi-Jayawardene
agreement
came, there was opposition to merging

of provinces”, Rambukwella said.
The government spokesman said that
the Cabinet had decided to convene a
brand new select committee in which all
political parties would be invited to join.
The select committee would
deal with all other amendments
necessary
for
the
thirteenth
amendment to the constitution.
The time-bound select committee
would
commence
work
next
Wednesday if possible. The government
would go ahead in amending the
thirteenth amendment irrespective of
the outcome of the select committee.
Rambukwella said despite concerns
raised by partners on the move to dilute
powers, the government was confident
of getting two thirds majority in
parliament for the amendment. Asked
if the government was concerned
over opposition coming from India
and the international community
over dilution of provincial powers,
Rambukwella said, “local opinion
and concerns are more important to
the government”. He said Sri Lanka’s
situation had evolved since 1987 when
India intervened in the island’s ethnic
separatist conflict. “It may have been
the correct thing at the time but now
things are different. We do not want
to face a situation with several police
forces within the country,” he said.
The move to dilute provincial powers
come ahead of government plans to
hold the first ever northern provincial
council election in September. The
ruling coalition’s nationalist partners
warn that undiluted provincial
powers would lead to the creation
of a separate state, the goal of the
LTTE’s 30 year armed campaign.(PTI)

BEIJING: China today kept
mum on US whistleblower
Edward Snowden’s attempts
to take refuge in Hong Kong
but took a moral high ground
accusing Washington of
“double standards” citing
his allegations that it has
been conducting hacking
attacks on China for years.
“Unfortunately I have no
information
right
now
to provide to you”, the
Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesperson,
Hua
Chunying told a packed
media briefing here today
declining to reveal how
Beijing plans to deal with
Snowden. The former US
government subcontractor,
who
exposed
massive
US phone and Internet
spying, has delivered a
propaganda coup of sorts
for China to counter US’
persistent allegations of
Chinese hacking attacks.
“On Snowden’s case,
we have noticed relevant
report but unfortunately
we have no information
to
offer”,
she
said.
While stonewalling all
questions on his possible
extradition, Hua, took a dig

at Washington reminding
the media how Beijing
was complaining of hacker
attacks from US for long.
In his interview to the Hong
Kong based South China
Morning Post from a “secret
location in the city”, the
29-year-old former CIA
analyst made claims that the
US government had been
hacking into computers
in Hong Kong and on
the mainland for years.
Snowden said that according
to unverified documents,
US’s National Security
Agency had been hacking
computers in Hong Kong
and in China since 2009.
None of the documents
revealed any information
about Chinese military
systems, he said referring to
reports of Chinese military
involvement in carrying
out cyber attacks. One of
the targets in Hong Kong
according to Snowden, was
Chinese University and
public officials, businesses
and students in the city. The
documents also point to
hacking activity by the NSA
against targets in China,
the Post said. Snowden

believed there had been
more than 61,000 NSA
hacking operations globally,
with hundreds of targets in
Hong Kong and China. “We
hack network backbones
like huge internet routers,
basically that give us access
to the communications
of hundreds of thousands
of
computers
without
having to hack every
single one,” he said.
Reacting to Snowdons
allegations, Hua said “as
we have repeatedly said on
this podium, China is also
one of the major victims of
hacking and cyber attacks.
China strongly advocates
cyber security”. She added
that
the
international
community should carry
out constructive dialogue
to ensure cyber security
and cooperate jointly to
deal with it. “We also think
adoption of double standards
will bring no benefit to
the settlement of relevant
issue”, she said recalling
the recent discussions on the
issue in the informal summit
between US President
Barrack Obama and his
Chinese counterpart Xi

Jinping. “We are opposed to
all forms of hacker and cyber
attacks”, she said calling for
constructive dialogue by the
international
community
based on mutual respect,
mutual benefit and mutual
trust. “We also would like
to carry out constructive
dialogue and cooperation
with countries including
the US based on mutual
respect, mutual benefit and
mutual trust”, she said.
US and China have agreed
to establish a cyber security
working group, she said.
“Countries all over the
world faced with cyber
security issue. We believe
should be addressed by
international
community
together”, she said. For its
part, the Chinese official
media seized Snowdon’s
comments with analysts
pointing out that his
allegations
are
certain
to
stain
Washington’s
overseas image and test
developing Sino-US ties.
Li Haidong, a researcher
of American studies at
China
Foreign Affairs
University, said the United
States is now stuck in
the awkward position of
having to explain itself to
its citizens and the world
following the exposure of
Washington’s vast Internet
snooping program. “For
months, Washington has
been accusing China of
cyberespionage, but it turns
out that the biggest threat
to the pursuit of individual
freedom and privacy in
the US is the unbridled
power of the government,”
Li told state run China
Daily. Zhang Tuosheng,
a researcher at the China
Foundation for International
and Strategic Studies, said
that despite controversies,
cybersecurity is still proving
to be a new realm for
cooperation between China
and the US, especially in
the wake of this surveillance
c o n t r o v e r s y. ( P T I )

NEW DELHI: India will
work with Pakistan on
scheduling of dialogue on
various bilateral issues
since the new government is
now in place in that country.
Noting that it was
“inevitable” that when
the elections are round
the corner, some of the
dialogue will take a little
time, top government
sources said since “the
elections are over and
there is a new government,
they (dialogue) will be
brought back on to same
track.”
The placement
and scheduling of these
talks will be discussed
between Foreign Secretary
Ranjan Mathai and his
Pakistani
counterpart,
the sources said, adding

the idea was to keep the
momentum “on” in the
Indo-Pak dialogue process.
They also stressed that
there was no “complete
pause”
in
Indo-Pak
dialogue in the aftermath
of the beheading of two
Indian soldiers earlier this
year. The sources said
India has conveyed through
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh’s special envoy
Satinder Lambah that it
stands “willing” to engage
with Pakistan on broad
framework of cooperation.
The idea was to openup the first contact with
Nawaz Sharif, even before
his swearing-in, and convey
India’s recognition of what
Pakistani leader had said in
his announced programme

Israel’s policy not to
supply arms to Pak,
says envoy

KOLKATA: Israel today
again strongly denied selling
arms to Pakistan reiterating
that it was against the
country’s policy to do so.
“We do not supply
weapons to Pakistan and
it is a policy which we
implement strictly. We do
not sell arms to Pakistan”,
Israeli
Ambassador
to
India Alon Ushpiz told
reporters on the sidelines
of a CII seminar here today.
According to a report
released
by
Britain’s
Department for Business,

Innovation and Skills, which
deals with British government
permits for arms and security
equipment exports, Israel has
exported military equipment,
including hi-tech gear used
in combat jets, over the
past five years to Pakistan.
Yesterday,
the
Israeli
embassy issued a statement
saying that the Ministry
of Israel today strongly
denied selling any military
equipment to Pakistan, saying
that it would “not do anything
that
could
undermine”
India’s
security.(PTI)

that he wants to build
India-Pak
relationship,
the
sources
said.
It was also to convey
that “we stood willing
to engage with Pakistan
on broad framework of
cooperation,” they added.
Noting that there were
demands that there should
be total stoppage of
dialogue with Pakistan after
the beheading in January
this year, the government
sources said India still
went ahead with the visit
of
Indo-Pak
Judicial
Committee on Prisoners to
Pakistani jails in Karachi,
Rawalpindi and Lahore.
They also said that the
discussions on the visit
by
Pakistan
Judicial
Commission
in
the

26/11 case have also
made progress and India
hopes that it can be taken
forward. Asked about the
Most Favoured Nation
status, the sources said
the matter will again be
discussed at the level of
Commerce Secretary, with
India “certainly looking
forward to implementation
of
this
commitment
(by
Pakistan).”
He also said the two
sides were also looking at
cooperation in power sector,
both LNG and electricity.
On
possibility
of
Singh’s visit to Pakistan,
the
sources
reiterated
India’s position that the
visit will only take place
if there was useful and
meaningful outcome.(PTI)

World Bank sees India’s growth
touching 6.7% in two years
WASHINGTON:
The
World
Bank
today
forecast a growth rate
of 6.7 per cent for India
within the next two fiscals
with exports and private
investment projected to
strengthen and provide
a boost to growth. The
country’s GDP in factor
cost terms is projected
to grow 5.7 per cent
in the current fiscal
(ending March 2014),
and then accelerate to
6.5 per cent and 6.7
per cent, respectively,
in the subsequent two
financial years, it said.
In its latest ‘Global
Some upside risks to the
outlook include a fasterthan- projected pick up
in global demand and
a larger than expected
decline in commodity
prices, the report said.
According to the report,
a greater dependence
on foreign investment
inflows to finance India’s
significantly
larger
current account deficit

compared to the past has
increased its vulnerability
to a sudden reversal
of investor sentiment.
“Several
factors
could
result
in
a
slowing or reversal of
investment inflows -- an
unanticipated monetary
tightening
in
some
high income countries;
resurgence
of
debt
tensions; escalation of
geopolitical
conflict;
and even disenchantment
with the pace or nature of
domestic reforms,” it said.
Moreover, the sharply
relaxed monetary policy
in Japan could result in
strong and disruptive
private capital flows, it
added. Noting that the
business sentiment in
the manufacturing sector
in India weakened to a
four-year low in May, the
report said if business
sentiment were to remain
weak in coming months,
this
could
adversely
impact
investment
and growth.
(PTI)

Business

Govt corrects IIP growth rate
twice in a day, Apr IIP 2.3%
NEW DELHI: Correcting
the
industrial
output
figures twice within span
of a few hours, the Indian
government Thursday said
IIP grew at 2.3 per cent
in April instead of 2 per
cent reported Wednesday.
The first correction this
morning put the Index
of Industrial Production
(IIP) at 2.2 per cent, only
to revise it yet again later
in the day to 2.3 per cent.
The
Ministry
of
Statistics and Programme

Implementation cited wrong
recording of production
data for the electricity sector
as the reason for revision.
According to official
data released Wednesday,
industrial
production,
measured in terms of index
of industrial production
(IIP,) registered 2 per
cent growth in April.
An official statement
earlier in the day said:
“The General Index (of
industrial production) for
the month of April 2013

is revised upward to 167.8
from 167.3 shown in
the press release (issued
Wednesday). The revised
index is 2.2 per cent, higher
as compared to the level in
the month of April 2012.”
The
ministry
later
in the afternoon again
corrected IIP growth rate
figure to 2.3 per cent.
The second corrigendum
also revised the power
sector output growth rate
upward to 4.2 per cent.
The ministry revised the

power sector growth rate
to 3.4 per cent in April
in the first corrigenda
from 0.7 per cent in the
data released Wednesday.
“Due to wrong recording
of production data for
electricity sector, the Index
of Industrial Production
(IIP) for the electricity
sector for the month of April
2013 is corrected to 159.1
from 153.8 as shown in the
press release issued on June
12, 2013 of this Ministry,”
said the corrigenda.(PTI)

FM’s reform talk draws
blank in forex mkt;Re down
19p at 57.98
MUMBAI: After a day’s
respite,
rupee
today
continued its downward
spiral and closed 19 paise
lower at 57.98 against
the dollar on weak stocks
and disappointment over
lack of concrete measures
in Finance Minister P
Chidambaram’s reform talk.
Fresh dollar demand
from importers and some
banks also weighed on the
rupee while weak dollar
overseas
forced
some
exporters to offload the
US currency, dealers said.
At the Interbank Foreign
Exchange (Forex) market,
rupee resumed sharply
lower at 58.10 a dollar from

previous close of 57.79. It
dropped further to a low
of 58.56 after hopes of
major steps like NRI bond
issuance by the government
were not announced by
Chidambaram in the press
conference in New Delhi.
While dollar demand
from importers weighed,
the rupee bounced back on
dollar selling by exporters
on hopes of further fall in
the dollar value in global
markets. Rupee touched
a high of 57.94 before
settling at 57.98, showing
a fall of 19 paise or 0.33
per cent. Yesterday, it had
gained 60 paise, snapping
a five-day losing run.

“The rupee was seen
depreciating during the
Finance Minister’s speech in
which he did not announce
any
concrete
measure
that the investors were
hoping for,” said Abhishek
Goenka, Founder & CEO,
India Forex Advisors.
The dollar index, which
tracks the performance of
the Us unit aginst a basket
of six major rivals, traded
negatively and traded at
three-month lows. Selling of
dollars by exporters helped
the rupee pare early losses,
according to Ashtosh Raina,
Head of Foreign Exchange
Trading, HDFC Bank.
Meanwhile, the Indian

benchmark
S&P
BSE
Sensex today tumbled
by 214 points amid FIIs
pulling out over Rs
550 crore from stock
markets, as per provisional
data
with
bourses.
“Rupee can appreciate.
Government has indicated
some steps and am sure the
RBI will do its share to stem
the slide,” said Srinivasa
Raghavan, EVP (Treasury),
Dhanlaxmi
Bank.
Yesterday,
government
hiked the G-Sec limit for
foreign investments by USD
5 billion. RBI has recently
taken steps like hiking
cap for online repatriation
of export proceeds.(PTI)

Sensex slumps 214 pts to end below
19K; Mkts shrug off FM talk
MUMBAI: A rout in world
markets triggered acrossthe-board selling pulling
down benchmark BSE
S&P Sensex Thursday
by 214 points to end
below
19K-mark
for
the first time in nearly
two months, even as the
Indian Finance Minister P
Chidambaram announced
that
more
economic
reforms are on the anvil.
The
Bombay
Stock
Exchange
30-share
barometer resumed lower
due to weak Asian cues
on the back of steep fall
on Wall Street Wednesday
and remained in negative
terrain throughout the
day. It finally settled at
18,827.16, showing a fall
of 213.97 points or 1.12
per cent. In straight three
sessions, Sensex has fallen
by 613.91 points or 3.16
per cent amid a weak rupee
and hefty capital outflows.
The index last closed below
19K-mark on April 17.
The 50-issue National
Stock Exchange Nifty also
dipped by 61.10 points, or
1.06 per cent, to end below
5,700-mark at 5,699.10.
MCX-SX flagship index,
SX40,
ended
102.23
points lower at 11,179.36.
Stock market participants
were under the grip of a
sell-off in global equities.

A day after rating agency
Fitch revised credit outlook
for India from negative to
stable, Chidambaram said
the government will soon
decide on coal and gas
pricing and review FDI cap
in various sectors. “Market
opened lower and remained
weak throughout the day
mainly on the back of weak
global cues. Asian markets
closed an average 2 percent
down. Japan’s Nikkei
closed 6.35 per cent down
on the back of strength
in Yen,” said Shrikant
Chouhan, Head Technical
Research, Kotak Securities.
Out of the Sensex
components, 25 stocks
declined led by drop in Tata
Motors and Mahindra and
Mahindra. Apollo Tyres fell
by 25.43 per cent on debt
concerns related to proposed
Rs 14,500-crore Cooper
Tire acquisition. Also, Sun
Pharma extended a fiveday drop by losing 3.22
per cent after it was asked
to pay USD 550 million
to settle a patent litigation.
Among
13
sectoral
indices, only BSE-CD
closed in positive terrain.
Other sectors closed in
negative territory with a
fall between 0.69 per cent
and 2.33 per cent with auto,
realty, power, pharma, and
IT leading the downfall.

All eyes are on tomorrow’s
WPI numbers which may
shape RBI policy on June
17 even as weak rupee has
hit rate cut hopes. . Weak
economic data like IIP and
CPI announced yesterday
already impacted negatively
and there is no sign of
any immediate economic
improvement in the sight, so
the market will remain dull
in near future, traders said.
Sustained
capital
outflows also weighed
on the market sentiment
as Foreign Institutional
Investors (FIIs) pulled out
Rs 1,060.17 crore yesterday
as per provisional data
with the stock exchanges.
Asian equities ended lower
after World Bank cut its
global growth forecast amid
concern central banks may
pare monetary stimulus.
Key benchmark indices in
China, Hong Kong, Japan,
Singapore, Taiwan and
South Korea fell by 0.726.35 per cent. European
markets were also trading
lower in their early trade,
after the Japan’s Nikkei
index crashed and US dollar
dropped to its weakest level
against the Japanese yen
since 4th April 2013. Key
indices in France, Germany
and UK dropped by 0.93
per cent to 2.02 per cent.
Turning back to the

Gold rebounds on stockists
demand, global cues
MUMBAI: Gold witnessed a strong
rebound after two-day slide at the
domestic bullion market today on
renewed stockists as well as retail
buying interest and global sentiment.
Moving with the general trend,
silver also regained some of the lost
ground owing to speculative buying.
Standard gold of 99.5 per
cent purity spurted by Rs
290 to finish at Rs 27,860
per 10 gm from Wednesday’s
closing level of Rs 27,570.

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Pure gold of 99.9 per cent purity
surged by Rs 295 to close at Rs
27,995 per 10 gm from Rs 27,700.
Silver ready (.999 fineness) rose by
Rs 140 to close at Rs 44,610 per kg
over its previous close of Rs 44,470.
Globally,
the
yellow-metal
rallied on safe haven demand,
bouncing back from its threeweek
low
following
some
weakness seen in dollar and
selling pressure in equities.
Gold for August delivery jumped

USD 15 to settle at USD 1,392 an
ounce on the Comex division of the
NYMEX late yesterday and July
silver contract gained 15 cents to
USD 21.80 an ounce. Meanwhile,
government today ruled out further
hike in customs duty following a
declining trend in gold imports in
the last few weeks after the recent
policy measures jointly taken by
the centre and the RBI to curb
gold demand in view of widening
current account deficit (PTI)

Bonds turn lower, call
rates finish higher

MUMBAI:
The
Government
securities (G-Sec) ended lower on
selling pressure from banks and
corporates, while the call money rates
finished higher at the overnight call
money market here today on sustained
demand from borrowing banks.
The 8.33 per cent government
security maturing in 2026 dropped
to Rs 106.85 from Rs 107.06
yesterday, while its yield climbed
to 7.50 per cent from 7.47 per cent.
The 8.20 per cent government
security maturing in 2025 declined

to Rs 105.53 from Rs 105.80,
while its yield moved up to 7.50
per cent from 7.47 per cent. The
8.15 per cent government security
maturing in 2022 also slipped to Rs
103.87 from Rs 104.17, while its
yield gained to 7.55 per cent from
7.50 per cent. The 8.07 per cent
government security maturing in
2017, the 8.97 per cent maturing in
2030 and the 8.12 per cent maturing
in 2020 also dipped to Rs 101.95, Rs
112.62 and Rs 103.70, respectively.
The Overnight call money rate

finished higher at 7.30 per cent from
7.25 per cent yesterday. It moved
in a range of 7.35 per cent and 7.15
per cent. The Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) under the Liquidity Adjustment
Facility (LAF) purchased securities
worth Rs 449.85 billion in 21-bids
at the one-day repo auction at a
fixed rate of 7.25 per cent, while it
sold securities worth Rs 0.95 billion
in three-bids at the one-day reverse
repo auction at a fixed rate of 6.25
per cent in the evening auction.(PTI)

40 stuck projects to be cleared
by July as PM orders spl cell

NEW DELHI: With projects
having Rs 7 lakh crore bank
funding stuck for various
reasons, the Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh
has directed the setting up of a
special group to fast-track them
and it is expected to clear up to
40 such projects by next month.
Singh issued the direction
for setting up the Project
Monitoring Group within
the Cabinet Secretariat at a
meeting that discussed the
status of 215 investment
projects which are stuck

because of lack of various
clearances and other factors.
“The Prime Minister directed
that a special cell be created
immediately in the Cabinet
Secretariat. This Cell would
be in the nature of a Project
Monitoring Group for all
large projects, both public
and private and would proactively pursue them so that
these investment projects
are commissioned on time,”
Prime Minister’s Office said
in a statement. Talking about
this, Finance Minister P

Chidambaram Thursday said
the Cell will fast-track all the
stalled projects. “The approach
will be to get some early
harvest. We will identify 2030-40 projects that are nearing
COD
(commencement
operation date),” he said at
a press conference. He said
the push will be given to
these projects, “what we call
low hanging fruits” among
215 projects, so that they can
quickly take off the ground.
“ The PMO further
said that the Cabinet
Secretariat was directed to
hold a meeting with Chief
Secretaries of states to have
state governments on board
with this new mechanism.
The Finance Ministry was
of the view that while some of
bottlenecks are in the domain
of regulatory authorities at
the Central level, “a large
number of impediments are
those that lie in the domain of
State Governments, and local
bodies”, according to the PMO.
At the meeting, Commerce
Minister Anand Sharma had
stated that his ministry has

Toomey new CEO
of Jet Airways
NEW DELHI: Aviation industry veteran
Gary Kenneth Toomey was Thursday
appointed by Jet Airways as its new
Chief Executive Officer, nearly two
months after the airline’s deal with Gulf
carrier Etihad. The appointment followed
the resignation of Nikos Kardassis on
June seven after he served two terms
as CEO between 1993-1999 and again
from October 2009 till May 2013.
Toomey, 58, an Australian national,
has previously served as President and
CEO of the Air New Zealand Group and
CEO of Airlines PNG in Papua New
Guinea during periods of their major
expansion. Before this, he had served in
various positions in Australian carrier
Qantas, including as a Director, Deputy
CEO and Chief Financial Officer.
Soon
after
Kardassis
resigned,
Capt Hameed Ali was appointed as
Acting CEO to run the show till a fulltime chief executive was appointed.
A Jet spokesperson said Ali would
continue as Acting CEO till Toomey’s

appointment
received
regulatory
approval. In a statement, Jet chief Naresh
Goyal said Kardassis had “made a
significant contribution to Jet Airways,
particularly in the development of
our international network, laying the
foundation for our future expansion.”
He said Toomey has “extensive experience
in domestic and international airline
management, and the right credentials
and skills to take Jet Airways forward.”
Toomey, on his part, said the fastgrowing Indian aviation market “offered
significant potential for Jet Airways not
only within India, but beyond, through new
or improved international connections.
I am delighted to have been selected
to lead the Company and continue the
development and growth of Jet Airways.”
Ever since Jet clinched a stake sale deal
with Abu Dhabi -based Etihad in April,
whereby it agreed to sell 24 per cent stake
for Rs 2,042 crore, the industry was abuzz
with speculation that changes in the private
carrier’s leadership were in the offing.(PTI)

U.S.dollar ends dearer
against rupee.
MUMBAI: The US dollar ended dearer
against the rupee at 57.98/99 per dollar
and the Pound Sterling also finished
higher at Rs 90.85/87 per pound at
the close of the Interbank Foreign
Exchange
Market
(Forex)
today.
Following are the Interbank Forex and
RBI rates: (In Rs Per Unit) Unit Interbank
RBI Reference US Dollar 57.98/99
US Dollar Rs 58.4140 Pound Sterling
90.85/87 Euro Rs 78.1193 Euro 77.26/28
Japanese Yen (100) 61.60/62 ---------- PTI
“The rupee was seen depreciating during
the finance ministers speech in which he did
not announce any concrete measure that the
investors were hoping for. However, later
we saw the rupee recovering against the US
dollar. We still expect a slight correction
in rupee. Next weeks FOMC meeting
will be very crucial which will further

determine the direction of the currency
market,” said Mr. Abhishek Goenka,
Founder and CEO, India Forex Advisors.
Meanwhile, premium for forward
dollar
ended
sharply
down
on
fresh
receivings
by
exporters.
Benchmark six-month forward dollar
premium payable in November dropped to
152-1/2-154 paise from Wednesday’s close
of 158-160 paise and far-forward contracts
maturing in May also dipped to 305-307
paise 313-315 paise. The RBI fixed the
reference rate for the US dollar at 58.4140
and for the euro at 78.1193. Rupee fell back
against the pound sterling to 90.85 from
previous close of 90.44 and also turned
negative to settle against the euro at 77.26
from 76.69. It too reacted downwards
sharply against the Japanese yen to 61.60
per 100 yen from last close of 59.82.(PTI)

done a compilation of projects
in the manufacturing sector,
which are stalled due to various
inter-agency bottlenecks. He
also emphasised the need to
sensitise state governments so
as to elicit their cooperation.
Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister
of Environment & Forests,
stated pendency of projects
for various environment
and forest clearances has
now
been
significantly
reduced, and the process to
accord such clearances has
been further streamlined.
Planning
Commission
Deputy Chairman Montek
Singh Ahluwalia was of the
opinion that 20-30 major
projects be chosen on priority
for speedy resolution, as this
will work as a confidence
booster to investment sentiment
and signal the government’s
seriousness on the issue.
The Cabinet Secretary said
the Cabinet Secretariat has
prepared an ‘Online CCI
Projects Tracking System’
portal for tracking projects
of over Rs 1,000 crore.(PTI)

Sensex ends below
19K-mark, dn 214
pts on global sell-off
MUMBAI:
Across-theboard sell-off triggered
by
weak
domestic
fundamentals amid fresh
fall in the rupee value and
feeble global trends pulled
the benchmark BSE S&P
Sensex down by another
214 points to end below
19K-mark for the first
time in nearly two months
at 18,827.16, completing
three day of losing string.
Despite Finance Minister
P
Chidambaram’s
assurance to take number
decisions in next few
days and weeks to
achieve revenue and fiscal
deficit targets,
(FIIs)
pulled out Rs 1,060.17
crore yesterday as per
provisional data with the
stock exchanges. Weak
economic data like IIP and
CPI announced yesterday
already
impacted
negatively and there is
no sign of any immediate
economic improvement in
the sight, so the market
will remain dull in near
future, a broker said.
From
13
sectoral
indices, only BSE-CD
closed in positive terrain
due to some recovery
in Titan The Bombay
Stock Exchange 30-share
barometer resumed lower
due to weak Asian cues
on the back of steep fall
on Wall Street yesterday
and remained in negative
terrain throughout the
day to settle at 18,827.16,
showing a fall of 213.97
points or 1.12 pct. In
straight three sessions,
the sensex has fallen by
613.91 points or 3.16 pct.
The 50-issue CNX Nifty
of the NSE also dipped
by 61.10 points or 1.06
pct to end below 5,700mark at 5,699.10. (PTI)

Sports
Separate probes into IPL spot-fixing
not creating hurdles: SC

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today said
it was not convinced that
separate probes by Mumbai and Delhi police into
IPL spot-fixing scandal
were creating hurdles in
the investigation that has
“wide
ramifications”.
“So far, you (petitioner) have not been able
to satisfy us that the
separate
investigation
(by Mumbai and Delhi
police) is creating trouble,” a bench of justices
Gyan Sudha Misra and
Madan B Lokur said.
The court was hearing
a PIL seeking transfer
of probe into the IPL
spot-fixing scandal by
Delhi and Mumbai po-

lice to CBI to unearth
larger conspiracy and insulate the investigation
from highly influential
persons and politicians.
The PIL sought CBI
probe to ensure proper co-ordination as the
guilty may go scot free
due to “mismanagement
and lack of co-ordination between different police agencies.”
The bench, which did
not issue notice, asked
Sharmila Ghuge, an
educationist in a Mumbai law college who
moved the court, to file
an additional affidavit after observing the
probe being carried out
by the police agencies.

“The
investigation
has got wide ramifications. You cannot go on
monitoring it on daily
or rather, hourly basis.
Give them some time to
investigate,” the bench
said and fixed the matter
for hearing on July 23.
The PIL has also sought
a direction to the CBI to
probe allegations of spot
fixing, match fixing and
betting pertaining to the
cricket matches of IPL6 or its earlier versions.
CBI should unearth the
huge racket behind the
illegalities and take the
strongest possible action
against all masterminds
behind such acts, it said. .
The petition said for a
“fair and proper” investigation, the cases registered by both the state
police should be probed
by CBI, otherwise there
are chances that the
probe can be hampered
by “highly influential
persons and politicians”.
“It is pertinent to mention here that there is
every chance that the
highly influential persons and politicians are
involved in the said illegality and therefore
there is every likelihood
that by exercising their
influence they will try
to hamper investigation
into the said offence and
they will naturally overpower the local police

of Mumbai and Delhi.
“Therefore, there is
a need that the present
offence should be investigated by CBI as this is
an interstate crime and
spread across the entire
country...,” the PIL said.
The PIL sought direction for taking suitable
legal action against all
the persons, “high or
mighty found involved
in the said illegalities,
which have put the image of the entire nation as well as game
of cricket at stake,
for ulterior motives”.
In the IPL spot-fixing
case being probed by
Delhi Police, 26 people, including Indian
pacer Sreesanth and Rajasthan Royals players
Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan and several
bookies were arrested.
So far, Mumbai police
has arrested actor Vindoo
Dara Singh and Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
principal Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of
BCCI President N Srinivasan who has stepped
aside, and six bookies
in the case. All of them
were granted bail by a
Mumbai court today.
The petition has arrayed
Centre,
Maharashtra
and Delhi governments,
their police agencies,
CBI and BCCI as parties in the plea. (PTI)

Warner suspended for remainder
of CT and Ashes tour games

BIRMINGHAM: Australian batsman David
Warner was today suspended for remainder
of the Champions Trophy as well as the two
Ashes series warm-up
games and slapped with
a fine of 11,500 dollars
(approx Rs 6.35 lakh)
for being involved in
a physical altercation
with an England player.
Warner, who appeared
for a disciplinary hearing, pleaded guilty to

breaching Rule 6: Unbecoming
Behaviour.
“Cricket Australia advises that David Warner has been suspended
and fined for breaching
the Cricket Australia
Code of Behaviour,” the
CA said in a statement.
“CA Senior Code
of Behaviour Commissioner, The Hon.
Justice Gordon Lewis AM, fined Warner
11,500 and suspended
from the remainder of

Australia’s ICC Champions Trophy campaign
as well as the Australian
team’s two tour matches before the first Ashes
Test against Somerset
and
Worcestershire,”
the statement added.
Warner will be eligible for selection for
the first Ashes Test
to be held in Nottimgham from July 10.
The punishment effectively means Warner will miss out on
only one international
match if Australia fails
to qualify for the semifinals of the Champions
Trophy. Yet to register
a win, Australia plays
their last match against
Sri Lanka on June 17.
Warner was involved
in a physical altercation
with England player Joe
Root in the early hours of
Sunday morning following the Champions Trophy match between the
teams in Birmingham.

The incident reportedly
took place in a Birmingham bar and involved alcohol after Australia lost
by 48 runs to England in
their tournament-opener.
The CA further stated,
“Rule 6 states: Without
limiting any other rule,
players and officials must
not at any time engage in
behaviour unbecoming
to a representative player
or official that could (a)
bring them or the game
of game into disrepute
or (b) be harmful to the
interests of cricket.”
Warner, who played
for Delhi Daredevils in
the IPL, most recently hit the headlines after being fined 5,750
Australian dollars last
month for breaching
CA’s code of behaviour
following his Twitter
rant against a couple of
journalists.He
subsequently apologized for
it but insisted that he did
that to defend himself.

Hoping for positive result
from judiciary: Chavan

MUMBAI: Rajasthan
Royals cricketer Ankeet
Chavan, who is out on
bail after being arrested

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for alleged involvement
in the IPL spot-fixing
scandal, today said he
is hoping to get a “positive” verdict from
the judiciary to restart
his cricketing career.
The 27-year-old Rajasthan Royals player
refused to comment on
the case against him.
“I have always given
my 100 per cent, always
played my cricket with
passion. I just hope that
I get a positive result

from the judiciary so
that I can start my career
and my cricket again,”
he told reporters here.
“I would just like
to say, the matter is
subjudice,
I
really
don’t want to comment on it,” he added.
Chavan and his Rajasthan teammate, India
Test pacer S Sreesanth,
were released from Tihar jail on Tuesday along
with 17 other accused.
All of them were grant-

ed bail by a Delhi court.
“I would like to
thank
the
judiciary for giving me bail.
I would also like to
thank my lawyer; he has
really worked a lot for
me. Secondly my family
and friends, they have
supported me a lot,”
said a relieved Chavan.
Chavan was earlier released on bail in the first
week of this month to get
married to his longtime
friend Neha Sambari.

Government approves India’s
bid to host U-17 Football WC
NEW DELHI: The
government on Thursday gave the go-ahead to
India’s ambitious bid to
host the U-17 Football
World Cup in 2017, thus
boosting the country’s
chances of organising
the tournament that is
already being backed
by FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke.
“The Union Cabinet
on Thursday gave its
approval to the proposal
for submitting guarantees sought by the All
India Football Federation (AIFF) from the
Government of India for
their bid to host the Federation
Internationale
de Football Association
(FIFA) Under 17 World
Cup Football Tournament in 2017 in India,”
a statement issued by
the Sports Ministry said.
Till now uncertainty loomed large over
India’s bid as FIFA,
world football’s governing body, needed guarantees on tax
exemption,
security,
transport and accommodation of players, visa
and foreign exchange.
India’s first bid was
rejected early this year,
in January, due to insufficient
assurances
from the government.
But with the government today giving the
green signal in providing
guarantees that would
meet FIFA’s basic requirements, it has paved
the way for a strong bid.
While the expenses of
hosting the event will

FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke.
be borne by FIFA and
AIFF, the government
has assured additional financial assistance.
“While the expenditure for upgradation of
stadia (Rs.95 crore) will
be provided as additional central assistance to
the State Governments,
a sum of Rs. 25 crore
is kept as a contingency
to ensure smooth conduct of the tournament.
“AIFF and FIFA have
agreed to bear the entire
expenditure of hosting
the tournament. The
amounts required are to
be raised through sponsorships and other commercial
agreements,”
the statement added.
The AIFF has proposed holding of matches in five states -- Delhi,
West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka and one
among the states of Assam, Goa and Kerala.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)
had, last month, approved AIFF’s bid.

Following the clearance from PMO, the
Sports Ministry got down
to preparing a Cabinet
Note for their approval.
Ireland,
Uzbekistan
and South Africa are the
other three bidders. India will have to submit
its bid by September after which the FIFA will
make a final announcement in December.
FIFA’s objective is to
help India improve its
football infrastructure
and grassroots through
organising the tournament. But Valcke,
during his visit to the
country last year, had
made it clear that India
will have to adhere to
the norms if they hope
to host the tournament.
“The proposed Under-17
World
Cup
would encourage more
youngsters to participate in sports and also
help develop the sport
of football in the country. It will also promote
tourism in the country.

“The event also has a
lot of importance from
the point of view of
playing technique, training, coaching and competition exposure, etc,
especially at under-17
level, and thus would
be good for the future
of football in India,” the
Ministry statement said.
During his visit, Valcke had stated: “There
will no change in rules
and it will be normal
bidding process with
countries
competing.
But we want the Under-17 World Cup to go
to a country where the
game can be developed
from the grassroots.
“India is a huge football market. A country
of 1.2 billion cannot
lag behind in football.
We see the event as the
perfect platform for the
development of infrastructure and grassroots
development. We want
to make football the
number two sport in India in ten years.” PTI

India to take part in
Asian Indoor Games
NEW DELHI: Indian
athletes are set to take
part in the fourth Asian
Indoor
and
Martial
Arts Games to be held
from June 29 to July 6
in Incheon, South Korea under the Olympic
Council of Asia banner in the aftermath of
IOA’s ban by the IOC.
Thirty five Indian athletes and 11 officials
from four sports have
been cleared by the
governenment
though
most of them are participating in the multi-sport
event at their own cost.
“As the IOA has been
suspended by International Olympic Committee (since December
last), the Indian athletes
will take part in the event
under the banner of OCA.
The OCA have got the
entries of the Indian ath-

letes, some will be taking
part at government cost
and some at their own
cost,” OCA Secretary
General, Randhir Singh,
who is also recognised
by the IOC as the Secretary General of the suspended IOA, told PTI.
There was though
confusion in the whole
process regarding who
should send the entries of
the athletes for the event.
Technically, V K Malhotra is still the IOA
acting chief though most
of the day-to-day activities at the headquarters
here are being done by
officials under the direction of the Abhey Singh
Chautala-led dispensation, which has not been
recognised by the IOC.
Malhotra said as acting
chief of the IOA, he has
sent the entries to the

OCA though he has told
the respective federations
to approach the Sports
Ministry
individually.
“I received the communication from the
OCA asking for India’s
participation and so I
have sent the entries of
the athletes to the OCA.
Since the federations of
some of the disciplines
featuring in the Asian
Indoor Games are not
affiliated to the IOA, I
have asked the individual
federations to approach
the Sports Ministry individually,” Malhotra said.
The
12-discipline
Games have some obscure sports like e-sport,
dance sport, kurash,
baduk, kickboxing and
muay. The others are
billiards, bowling, chess,
futsal, kabaddi and short
course swimming (25m).
Thirteen billiards players will take part in the
Games, while 14 are
kabaddi players, four in
chess and four in bowling.
Sports Secretary P K
Deb said that kabaddi players have been

cleared to participate at
government’s cost while
others will be cleared at
no cost to government.
“We have cleared
kabaddi to take part
at government cost.
Regarding
billiards,
we are will take a sympathetic view and we
have asked (the federation) to submit the
budget,”
Deb
said.
Sports Authority of
India Director General
Jiji Thomson said that
the government will
not fund the athletes.
All India Chess Federation Secretary Bharat
Singh Chauhan said his
players would be taking
part in the event at their
own cost as the government has said that it
would not foot the bill.
“Four chess players
have been cleared at no
cost to the government.
So the federation and
the players will bear the
cost. We are not affiliated to the IOA and so we
have been denied government fund,” he said.

SPORT- BOXING COMPETITION
Visakhapatnam:
The four-day YSR
memorial state level
sub junior(Men) invitation boxing championship will be held at
Madhurawada on the

outskirts of the city
from June 30 to July 3.
Addressing a press
conference here today, General Secretary
of Andhra Pradesh
Boxing Association,

G V Ravi Raju said
that nearly 160 to 180
players will take part
in the championship
being held for the
third consecutive year.
He said the tour-

nament will be organised by Maruthi
boxing club Madhurawada which will
provide free boarding and lodging for
the participants.(PTI)